I Read A Lot Of Scripts And

You Can't Control Everything That Comes To You.

You Know, Independent Films Have Been Institutionalized, Practically. Every Studio Has Got A Boutique Arthouse Label. There's Like, 18 Different Independent Film-financing Funds. In Fact, I Think The Children Of Those Films Are Getting Made. A More Interesting Question Is Whether Those Films Are Going To Get Seen And Appreciated.

But Look At Avatar (2009), One Of The Most Globally Viewed Pieces Of Entertainment To Have Ever Been Made - The Central Emotional Event Of The Whole Movie Was A Tree Being Cut Down. And The Entire Movie, Essentially, Is Saying, "if We Let The Military Industrial Complex Trash The Place That We're Living In, We Will Have Committed An Epic Crime."

To Cite My Own Alma Mater, It's Shocking To Me That Yale University Can Teach What It Teaches At The Yale School Of Environmental Studies And Utterly Fail To Mirror Those Values In Any Way In Its Investment Practices.

I Grew Up On The Golden Age Of Children's Tv.